Young Vic, London Franz Xaver Kroetz's 1975 play about a hard-up couple preparing to have a child is staged by Ian Rickson in a new translation by Conor McPhersonFranz Xaver Kroetz's play, newly translated by Conor McPherson, was originally written in 1975 and pointed to the high price paid by ordinary people for the postwar German economic miracle. Times are hard for lorry driver Kurt and his heavily pregnant wife, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PM on November 1, 2016